Posted on 11/21/2020 5:37:39 AM PST by EBH
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Court of Claims has ordered the Ohio Department of Health to release data about daily hospital staffing levels, medical supplies and bed capacity as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
The court ruled this week in favor of Eye on Ohio, Ohio Center for Investigative Journalism, which sued after it was denied a data request submitted in March.
In rejecting the records request, the Ohio Department of Health argued the data are security records exempted from disclosure under the state’s public records law. The information tracked through the Ohio Department of Health’s data-gathering software, Surgenet, is for responding to crises, such as bioterrorism or a pandemic, and shouldn’t be released because it could be used in the response to a future terrorism attack, the agency argued.
The court, which reviews public records disputes, disagreed.
“Although the Surgenet system could be used to mitigate or respond to acts of terrorism at some future time, and ODH may be able then to justify the security records exception, its daily hospital bed and resource records were not being so used on the date of this request,” stated an October report by the Court of Claims special master.
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So, is this good or bad news?
Hard to understand why this information would be withheld in the first place.
Well we haven’t been able to get straight information regarding the assessments and shutdowns. The shutdowns happen due to hospital capacity limits. We couldn’t find out what those limits actually are.
Example we’re told Ohio is currently at close to 75% ICU capacity, but there’s only 738 covid patients in ICU, using 33% of the ventilators. So the math story question is how many beds are still available? It is like a secret trick question. Of the 75% there are 738 covid patients? We don’t know what the trigger point is for a shut down or a hospital being overrun.
Best guess is Ohio only has 553 ICU beds left for all cases. That’s bad or appears very, very critical at the present time. A bad weekend here and it is game over for Ohio. Start scaling up the temporary locations again.
Send the hospital ship Comfort to Ohio
Best guess is Ohio only has 553 ICU beds left for all cases.
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According to the Ohio dashboard they have over 1100 beds available as of yesterday. But I do see that the numbers of hospitalizations and ICU beds has risen dramatically in the last 2 weeks. Hopefully this trend will go down soon.
I would say that is a bad guess.
Ohio has more then 2500 ICU beds.
Having been a hospital financial/statistical analyst during my working days, the phrase "lies, damned lies, then there are statistics" comes to mind. There are empty beds versus available beds staffed with qualified personnel. There are ventilators on hand versus available ventilators that can be supported with adequate material and trained staffing. Still shedding light on the statistics may promote some honesty.
“Best guess is Ohio only has 553 ICU beds left for all cases. That’s bad or appears very, very critical at the present time. A bad weekend here and it is game over for Ohio. Start scaling up the temporary locations again.”
Hospitals go broke when their ICUs are at less than 80% full. They WANT them full. 95% full is the goal. That’s where they make most of their money, and there is ALWAYS surge capacity.
Don’t fall for the panic porn. It’s simply not true. And especially when you find out the big difference between hospitalizations BECAUSE of covid, V. hospitalizations WITH covid.
The actual bed occupancy and supplies usage information is necessary to gauge actual vs. political claims.
Also, back then a "case" meant strong to severe symptoms and under direct medical care. Now a "case" is a positive test, where Elon Musk calls Antigen Tests "Extremely Bogus", as do professionals in the field Asymptomatic 'Casedemic' Is a Perpetuation of Needless Fear
It's all about fear manipulation of the public in order to destroy our natural rights as protected by our Representative Republic political structure, and hand power over to the corrupt few.
That was funny. Seriously, what happened to flattening the curve? The whole nation has been masking up and locking down for 8 months and Covid is surging?
The way I heard it, ICU capacity is fluid, and the only way to make ICU units profitable is to keep their use near their capacity.
Tagline, read.
It is INFURIATING. I trust God is working through all of this but nothing makes me madder than DAMNED LIES.
Hospitals don’t make a lot of money on ICU’s per se. It’s a complicated continuum of per patient care and their needs that they make money on. A person can be a simple heart bypass but stay 2 days in an icu then out to the floors and then home in a week....the hospital makes a ton of money on that case. How ever complicate that case with surgical complications, a finicky arrhythmic heart and sepsis and such a patient may stay in the icu for 2 weeks with a week’s stay in the transitional units.... then to in patient rehab because of a weaker post care physical condition than first anticipated. What you get then is a money loser!
Thank you.
Is that actual available or is that inventory. If inventory then 75% are already occupied.
The units are designed to run at more than 85% capacity. Saying that you have to shut the state down because you're only at 75% capacity is insane.
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Ohio Court of Claims orders state to release daily hospital staffing, medical supplies and bed capacity data
Cleveland.com ^ | 11/13/2020 | Laura Hancock
Posted on 11/21/2020, 8:37:39 AM by EBH
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